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Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Wednesday 18 September 2019
Amazon officially today announced suppor for Hindi in its Alexa virtual assistant, allowing users to issue voice commands in the fourth most spoken language in the world. The development comes more than a year after Google introduced Hindi support in Google Assistant. Signs of Alexa‘s Hindi integration emerged in July, when the retail giant added the language’s voice model to its Alexa Skills Kit for developers. Based on a internet trends report released by Google and KPMG, the number of Indian language internet users is expected to hit a record high of 534 million by 2021, with Hindi speakers (at 201 million) outnumbering…
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